JOURNAL STAFF

Centenary’s baseball season came to an end on Saturday as the Diamond Gents lost game three 14-9 to No. 4 ranked LaGrange College of Georgia and dropped the best-of-five series at Cleaveland Field in Williamson Stadium.

The Gents season ended with a 27-19 record at their second trip to the Division III Baseball Championship.

LaGrange (40-6) won the first two games of the series Friday, 7-3 in game one and rallied for a 9-7 win in game two. 

Centenary scored a run in the first inning of Saturday’s game three and four more in the fourth for a 5-0 lead going to the bottom of the fourth. The Panthers got cranked up with three runs in the fourth and took the lead 7-5 with four more in the fifth. They continued to score in each of the next three innings.

Centenary outhit the hosts 17-15 with Brady Robinson, Gary Hewitt and Noah Koehmstedt all registering three hits. Hewitt and Tyler Welch (2 hits) had doubles.

In Friday’s first game Gent hurler Tyler Herrera (7-1) suffered his only loss on the season despite allowing just three earned runs in six and 2/3 innings. Ben Bridges had a single and home run and drove in two runs. He was joined by Welch, Preston Ludwick and Tyler Erickson all with two hits.

The Gents took a 7-4 lead into the eighth inning of game two when LaGrange got two runs in the eighth and erased a 7-6 deficit to score three more in the ninth to pull out the win.

Again, Centenary was not short on hits with 11 and four finished with multiple. Welch, Robinson, Hewitt and John Beaudion all had two with Erickson and Beaudion getting doubles.

Parker Primeaux (9-6) suffered the loss on the mound for the Gents.